they would have, like, when they landed in manchester, he said to his mother, i arrived in the city where charles mclain lives. well, he lived in manchester, new hampshire. he couldn't say specifics, but they found ways to get around that, and the second was how did they talk about sustained combat -- is that -- >> make thingsÑi look nice to te families. did they talk, emotionally, how they dealt with being under fire, knowing they would be the next day, and doing it the next day, and the day after that and the day after that? >> well, i can tell you that the letters became sparser when they were in combat. i mean, they spent a lot of time waiting around for combat. what i know about that i learnedded from the letters they wrote later, the four of the five of them were in the hospital. they had a lot of time to write letters. they didn't talk too much about how they dealt with fear. more they talk about how hard it was to start losing men. that seemed to be the thing that really impressed them, and it was difficult, and that was something i think they could share. my uncle talked once lo